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CVE-2019-12761

CVE-2019-12761 PUBLISHED

A code injection issue was discovered in PyXDG before 0.26 via crafted Python code in a Category element of a Menu XML document in a .menu file. XDG_CONFIG_DIRS must be set up to trigger xdg.Menu.parse parsing within the directory containing this file. This is due to a lack of sanitization in xdg/Menu.py before an eval call.

EPSS 0.61% · 70.2th percentile

Risk Scores

EPSS Score
0.61%
70.2th percentile

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
Ubuntu:16.04:LTSpyxdg0.25-4, 0
Ubuntu:18.04:LTSpyxdg0.25-4ubuntu1, 0, 0.25-4
Ubuntu:Pro:14.04:LTSpyxdg0.25-4, 0.25-3, 0

Exploit Intelligence

Timeline

  • Jun 6, 2019 CVE Published
  • Apr 14, 2021 EPSS Score
  • Jun 23, 2021 EPSS Score
  • Aug 24, 2021 EPSS Score
  • Dec 27, 2021 EPSS Score
  • Jan 6, 2022 EPSS Score
  • Feb 4, 2022 EPSS Score
  • Feb 28, 2022 EPSS Score
  • Apr 1, 2022 EPSS Score
  • Jul 3, 2022 EPSS Score
  • Sep 4, 2022 EPSS Score
  • Nov 6, 2022 EPSS Score
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